Linnaeus Legacy carnival 11 up 8 Sep 2008 At Kevin Zelnio’s The Other 95%. Much crunchy goodness about taxonomy. Ecology and Biodiversity Species and systematics
Biology Speciation – a brief history: Linnaeus 1 Apr 20145 Apr 2014 One of the fundamental aspects of evolution is speciation. This is the process by which more species come into being, and there are many different definitions and mechanisms that have been proposed by biologists in the last couple of centuries. I aim to write an occasional series on what it… Read More
Epistemology Are humans, apes, monkeys, primates, or hominoids? 19 Mar 201221 Jun 2018 I suspect the correct literary answer is that we are Yahoos, but here I want to do what I would ordinarily never dare do: disagree with John Hawks. John takes Jerry Coyne to task for calling humans “apes”: Humans are hominoids. Hominoidea is a taxonomic group. Phylogenetic systematics holds that taxonomic… Read More
Ecology and Biodiversity A code for area names 18 Jun 2008 One of the most important documents published in zoology in the 19th century was in fact a rather mundane one: The Strickland Code: Hugh. E. Strickland, John Phillips, John Richardson, Richard Owen, Leonard Jenyns, William J. Broderip, John S. Henslow, William E. Shuckard, George R. Waterhouse, William Yarrell, Charles R…. Read More